First of all, what’s “ALT.NET”? The concept has been around quite a while, and there are groups in many other cities. In fact, click through to NY ALT.NET or DC ALT.NET for a good description. John also has a post describing “Why Beantown ALT.NET?”

John kindly invited me to speak for this meeting. We’ll go beyond the “What is HTML5?” introduction to focus on practical strategies, tools, libraries, etc. for adopting HTML5 technologies today, while accommodating browsers that don’t natively support those features.